I'm trying to maintain space in my heart at least for recognizing the humanity and redeemability of people who voted for this, mostly because I don't like what not doing so has done to me. But I really struggle to understand how anybody didn't see he was full of shit from the very beginning. - ThreadSky

bajoran-orbison.bsky.social • 4 days ago

I'm trying to maintain space in my heart at least for recognizing the humanity and redeemability of people who voted for this, mostly because I don't like what not doing so has done to me.

But I really struggle to understand how anybody didn't see he was full of shit from the very beginning.

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benjaminthomas.bsky.social•4 days ago

Fraud victims frequently refuse to admit they've been defrauded, even when continuing to believe compounds the harm. Imho, it's often a mix of ego and conscience protection and sunk cost thinking.
-The best thing to do is quickly admit I've been taken and cut it off, but for many, that is hard.

benjaminthomas.bsky.social•4 days ago

-Fox News, Facebook, and other right wing outlets provide non-stop reinforcement of the con, endless reasons to keep believing, which part of me wants to do anyway.
The fraud victim sometimes becomes an active participant, harms others, and is now implicated, making it even harder to admit or stop.

allumedar.bsky.social•4 days ago

I feel you. It's a daily battle, one that I refuse to concede. I will see our fellow Americans as human, even when they see others as less than that. It takes a lot outta me sometimes, but so many are ill-informed and lied to by bad actors. Callousness has never redeemed a hateful heart.

tantibuscore.bsky.social•4 days ago

I love seeing posts like this. Not because we aim to excuse the wrong actions, but because we refuse to stoop to the same level of endless hate and zero empathy.

I'd encourage anyone to recognize and feel their anger, but to also search for where they can find love for strangers.

anthrog1rl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Very admirable.

You are a vastly better person than I. Yet, I find at this moment in these times I am ok with that.

#Accountability #3E

rdmacq.bsky.social•4 days ago

Because he was supposed to hurt *other people* instead of them.

fromrightfield.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m with you. It’s especially hard because we had already had him once, and he told us how he was going to behave in the future.

But hate the sin, love the sinner. It’s a huge test, though.

whitetrashboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's a wonderment. Some folks are not especially bright. All folks, bright or not can get sucked into the propaganda echo chamber. Trump "put out the tent stakes," by inviting every extreme, previously disenfranchised element to the table. It's transactional. He hates who YOU hate. There's much more

whitetrashboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

This propaganda methodology has it's roots in a century of study in sales + social engineering. It's MK Ultra level stuff. Think Jonestown, speakers blasting sermons 24-7. Nefarious powers, coming for us (CIA etc), people trying to leave. Snitch or be punished. The siege mentality, hate + fear.

whitetrashboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Enemies without, enemies within, even your own family. It's racism, demonization of folks, nationalism masquerading as patriotism, the strident language, demagoguery (we hate who you hate). This is infectious psychopathology with media as the Vector. It's pandemic, endemic in our culture.

whitetrashboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Depressed paranoids are the ones that cordon themselves off in a tower with weapons, like Texas A+M. On the low end of the same scale, they are surly, volatile, pumped full of Cortisol, road raging, abusing loved ones + random people alike. Yeah, the folks aren't "smart" nor are the propagandists.

whitetrashboy.bsky.social•4 days ago

But the inventors + funders are geniuses. Goebbels is writhing in jealousy in Hell. It's all Q now. We say it and it's Gospel. We change 180 degrees tomorrow, and that becomes Gospel too. Imagine the power of that, a brainwashed Zombie Horde? That sh*t is for sale + Trump is the CEO of it all.

catalytic2.bsky.social•3 days ago

The thing I try to keep in mind at all times is that we all have more in common than we haven't.

rmoonhill.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's been a constant struggle for me to not contact the handful of people I know personally who said "yes I'd like more of that guy" and tell them that I find them irredeemably stupid and cruel.

I'm trying, Ringo. I'm trying real hard.

vinniehernandez.bsky.social•4 days ago

Their willful lack of empathy bordering on psychopathy is terrifying as it seems to spread. I too don’t like how it affects me. Its very nature makes it incomprehensible to the empathetic. While It may not be to possible understand why people don’t care about others, we cannot become like them.

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